Despite the demeaning nature of her work and the stressful nature of investigating potentially inflammatory or illegal posts on the site, she decides to remain due to the company’s various perks, such as being able to work from home. Wiener, who felt restricted by the publishing industry’s restrictive norms and shrinking revenue, feels out of place amongst the tech executives and engineers in her new surroundings yet content with her rising wage and generous work benefits.Īfter switching between several companies, she finally settles on the open-source coding company GitHub as a customer service representative. In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener―stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy.
The book focuses on Wiener’s transition from the publishing industry to a series of jobs at technology companies, and her gradual disillusionment with the technology industry. Uncanny Valley is a 2020 memoir by writer Anna Wiener. It traces one person’s journey through the tech euphoria and subsequent alienation of the last decade.
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age. Club, Vox, Jezebel, Town & Country, OneZero, Apartment Therapy, Good Housekeeping, PopMatters, Electric Literature, Self, The Week (UK) and BookPage.A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick.★★ ★★ Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Esquire, Parade, Teen Vogue, The Boston Globe, Forbes, The Times (UK), Fortune, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, The A.V. ★★ AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF JANUARY 2020 ★★ ★★ ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020.
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